billy twinkle: requiem for a golden boy

The world’s master of marionettes, Canada’s Ronnie Burkett, is back in Sydney with his new show, ‘Billy Twinkle: Requiem for A Golden Boy’.

It has been an incredible journey for Burkett who has been captivated by the world of puppetry

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blessed

Ana Kokkinos’s new film ‘Blessed’, adapted from the stage play, ‘Who’s Afraid Of The Working Class’, is another hard hitting drama from this Greek filmmaker who has built her reputation from making such films starting with the multi award winning

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the choir

As she was softly singing away at her desk recently, a South African work colleague of mine lent over to me and said, ‘in South Africa everyone sings’. Her comment is well and truly borne out in Australian filmmaker Michael

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bastardry

Amiel Courtin-Wilson’s documentary ‘Bastardy’ is a warts and all portrait of Jack Charles, one of Australia’s leading Aboriginal actors. Born in 1943 Jack Charles was a true child of the Stolen Generations, and spent many of his tender years in

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disgrace

There’s a haunting quality about Steve Jacobs’s film ‘Disgrace’, adapted from J.M. Coetzee’s best selling novel, that is impossible to shake off.

‘Disgrace’ charts a very unusual father and daughter relationship. John Malkovich plays David Lurie, a professor at a

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gethsemane

The current upstairs production at Belvoir Street is David Hare’s latest play ‘Gethsemane’ in a production directed by Neil Armfield. The production represents outgoing Belvoir Artistic Director Armfield’s fourth and final production of a Hare play in what has been

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a streetcar named desire

This is a great ‘Streetcar’!

Cate Blanchett and Joel Edgerton give great performances in two of the most prized roles in theatre. They embody their roles that counterpoint each other; Blanche’s extreme fragility and desperation, Stanley’s raw confidence and aggressiveness.

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don juan in soho

Luke Rogers production for the New Theatre’s of British playwright Patrick Marber’s play ‘Don Juan in Soho’ is a great night out at the theatre.

A loose and very contemporary adaptation of Moliere’s classic 17th Century play, the central character

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the life of galileo

The Epicentre Theatre Company is currently presenting Bertolt Brecht’s ‘The Life Of Galileo’, in an adaptation by David Hare, as the final play in this years’ trilogy of works celebrating classic theatre works framed around the theme of courage in

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